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HTML to Plain Text Converter — Strip Tags, Keep Structure
Convert HTML to clean plain text in your browser. Native parser handles nested tags, preserves list structure, optional link URLs and bullet styles. Copy or download.
HTML to Plain Text Converter — Strip Tags Without Destroying Structure
Paste HTML and get clean, readable plain text. Unlike a naive “strip tags” approach, this converter understands your document: paragraphs become paragraphs, lists become bulleted lists, headings stand on their own lines, and HTML entities are decoded properly. Everything happens in your browser using its native HTML parser — robust, fast, and private.
What makes it different
- Native HTML parser: uses the browser’s built-in DOMParser instead of regex, so it handles real-world messy HTML correctly
- Structure preserved: paragraphs, headings, and lists become recognizable text blocks instead of one giant wall of text
- Entities decoded: & becomes &, " becomes “, etc. — automatically
- Images: their alt text is included in square brackets
- Tables: rows become lines, cells separated by spaces
- Preformatted content: text inside <pre> keeps its exact whitespace
Options
- Keep link URLs: when checked, links appear as “anchor text (url)” instead of just the text
- Preserve all line breaks: skip the whitespace-cleanup pass, keeping every break exactly
- List bullet style: choose • bullet, – dash, * asterisk, or no bullet at all
- Ordered lists (<ol>) are automatically numbered 1., 2., 3. — no setting needed
Common uses
- Cleaning up HTML emails or newsletters before pasting elsewhere
- Extracting readable content from a copied web page
- Preparing text for a word counter or plain-text tool
- Generating .txt versions of articles, blog posts or documentation
- Stripping rich-text formatting before pasting into a system that only accepts plain text
Privacy
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your HTML is never uploaded to any server.